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View synonyms for objectively

objectively

[ uhb-jek-tiv-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that is not influenced by personal feelings or prejudices:

    An outsider can consider the dispute more objectively than people who are directly involved.

  2. in a way that can be known, measured, or proven:

    A new method is being developed to objectively analyze how climate change is affecting ocean surface temperatures.



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Other Words From

  • qua·si-ob·jec·tive·ly adverb
  • sem·i·ob·jec·tive·ly adverb
  • un·ob·jec·tive·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of objectively1

First recorded in 1590–1600, for an earlier sense; objective ( def ) + -ly ( def )

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Example Sentences

Author Alice George also has the chance to analyze more objectively than Glenn’s own comprehensive 1999 memoir.

This is because the moves of professional chess players in games, going back over a century, are recorded, and so researchers can objectively analyze the quality of players’ moves over their career, inferring cognitive rise and decline.

Some of these sounds are objectively damaging to our health.

The Pro Max may be objectively “better” when it comes to maintaining detail and combatting noise in low-light, but that could come at the cost of some number of missed shots.

“I never felt subjectively, and no one ever told me objectively, that my probation was limiting the cases to which I was being appointed,” Winger said.

Objectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.

“I always felt I had covered the story objectively and that both sides were wrong,” he told The Daily Beast.

This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial.

Whatever they subjectively believe, however, their agenda objectively disadvantages gays, immigrants, women, and people of color.

And never have I met a group of people as doggedly convinced that their opinion is “objectively” correct as gamers.

He sees things, does the engineer; sees objectively; follows nature throughout.

But there is another sense of the word possible; the sense in which an event is objectively undetermined.

Believers contend that they really exist objectively and excuse the neglect on account of preoccupation.

On the other hand, the universal has no real existence outside of the mind, for the objectively real is the particular thing.

It becomes serious, objectively, because so many people arc asking for it.

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